Wire-stretcher gage.



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To. all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL W. C. KLor- KORN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Blackwell, in the county of Kay and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in IVire- Stretcher Gages; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in wire stretcher gages and the principal object of the invention is to provide a gage to indicate the amount of pull on the wire so that the user may readily tell when the wire has been stretched to the proper point.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device which will insure an even stretching of all the wires thereby avoiding the possibility of the wire sagging and becoming loose through the unevenness of the tension on the various wires in a fence.

Heretofore in stretching fence wire there has been no means for indicating to the operator when the tension of all of the wires is equal and the result has been the tighter stretching of some of the wires and a little less stretching of the others, thus causing the loose wires to gradually become looser and the tight wires to tighten so that some of the wires sagged and thus impaired the effectiveness of the fence. This invention contemplates the provision of a means to insure an even stretching on all of the wires, thereby avoiding the possibility of any of the wires sagging due to the unequal pull on the fence posts.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts which will be fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a wire stretcher illustrating this improved attachment applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the attachment.

Fig. 3 is an end view thereof, and

Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the device.

Referring to the drawing 1 designates a wire stretcher of any suitable construction having the draw bar 2 and the usual lever 3.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 19m.

Application filed August 29, 1916. Serial No. 117,439.

Secured to one end of the draw bar is the gage attachment designated generally by the numeral 4: consisting of a housing for the gage which comprises the back plate 5 having formed at its side edges the out wardly curved flanges 6. A tongue 7 is formed at one end of the plate 5 and is formed with a plurality of apertures 8 for the reception of suitable rivets by means of which the. housing is attached to the draw bar of the wire stretcher.

Mounted within the housing is a suitable scale 9 which may be of any preferred construction and the body of the scale is pivotally secured to a link 10 which in turn is pivoted as at 11 to the draw bar of the stretcher. The housing 9 is formed with a slot 12 through which the pointer 13 of the scale operates and formed on the outer side of the casing 9 adjacent the slot are a plurality of graduations. The draw bar of the scale is designated by the numeral 14 and extends out through one end of the body 9 and has attached thereto the flexible con nection 15 by means of which the same is anchored to the post against which the wire is being pulled.

In use, it will be seen that the wire is attached to the wire clamp secured to the lever 3 and the flexible member 15 is secured to the anchor post whereupon by the oscillation of the lever it will be seen that pull will be exerted on the wire and as the draw bar 2 of the wire stretcher is connected to the body of the scale and the flexible member 15 is connected to the draft bar 14: of the scale, it will be evident that the pointer 13 will register the number of pounds of the amount of pull being exerted on the wire. In this way it will be seen that by setting a standard the operator may readily draw all the wires to uniform tightness and he is insured against any variations thereof.

While in the foregoing there has been shown and described the preferred embodiment of this invention, it is to be understood that such changes may be made in the combination and arrangement of parts as will fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

What is claimed is 1. In a device of the class described, a wire stretcher having a draw bar, a housing secured to one end of the draw bar, a scale within the housing, the body of the scale being attached to the draw bar, said scale also having a draw bar, and a flexible connection secured to the second draw bar, whereby upon operation of the wire stretcher the amount of pull will be indicated.

2. The combination with a Wire stretcher having a draw bar and a lever, said lever being adapted to be attached to the wire which is being stretched, of a gage comprising a housing secured to one end of the draw bar, a scale having one end of its body secured to the draw bar, the said scale being contained Within the housing, said scale also having a draw bar, a flexible member secured to the second mentioned 15 draw bar and adapted to be attached to an anchor post so that upon oscillation of the lever, the same will move along the draw bar thereby tightening the fence Wire and exerting a pull against the draw bar of the scale whereby the pull on the fence Wire may be determined.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses; 1

V EMIL W. C. KLOFKORIN. Witnesses:.

F. M. BLACK, W. RUSSELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington. D. 0. a 

